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Pyrgini
The Pyrgini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. Formerly, when only four tribes of Pyrginae were recognized, the Pyrgini contained the largest number of genera among these. But this overly wide delimitation has since turned out to be paraphyletic.
28 branches of this tribe, most-observed first
New World Checkered-Skippers
genusBurnsius
Grizzled Skippers
genusPyrgus
White-Skippers
genusHeliopetes
Antigonus
genusAntigonus
Xenophanes
genusXenophanes
Powdered-Skippers
genusSystasea
Canesia
genusCanesia
Celotes
genusCelotes
Zopyrion
genusZopyrion
Paches
genusPaches
Trina
genusTrina
Chirgus
genusChirgus
Systaspes
genusSystaspes
Hoary-Skippers
genusCarrhenes
Snout-Skippers
genusAnisochoria
Diaeus
genusDiaeus
Clito
genusClito
Spioniades
genusSpioniades
Eracon
genusEracon
Timochreon
genusTimochreon
Santa
genusSanta
Onenses
genusOnenses
Plumbago
genusPlumbago
Zobera
genusZobera
Cornuphallus
genusCornuphallus
Pseudodrephalys
genusPseudodrephalys
Bralus
genusBralus
Caicella
genusCaicella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pyrgini in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 320554.